We interview Ricardo Almeida, the founder and CEO of Clube de Autores, the top self-publishing platform in Brazil.
Kotobee: Developing Interactive Textbooks in Egypt
Cairo-based Kotobee, sister company to BookBake, has launched a new tool for developing interactive textbooks in the Arab world.
Berlin’s Re:publica14: Making the Internet Strong and Free
Re:publica14 in Berlin offered a glimpse into the German internet psyche, which is consumed with issues of net neutrality, censorship and political pranks.
Publishers and Games Developers Face Culture Clash
Publishers and game developers come from different worlds and cultures, with one games developer describing the working relationship as ‘a nightmare.’
LBF’s Digital Minds: The Golden Age or End of the Book?
The Digital Minds conference in London took a philosophical bent, questioning is this ‘golden age for publishing or the end of the book?’
Publish or Perish? Now It’s Publish, Share, Track or Perish
Jan Reichelt of Elsevier’s Mendeley platform for managing and sharing research papers discusses how tech is changing the way in which academics build a reputation.
A Word of Warning About Content Exploitation, Enhancement
It’s dangerous just to see content as a data file to be exploited or enhanced, argues Lean Forward’s Tom Dolan, a top media guru from the UK.
Denmark’s Movellas Social Reading/Writing Empowers Teens
Movellas, a community for teenagers to read, write and share stories launched in 2010, has attracted 200,000 budding literati in the US, UK and Denmark.
In a Digital World, What Does “Out of Print” Mean?
With ebooks and print-on-demand, readers never again have to want for a much loved, long forgotten, or previously unpublished book from a cherished writer.
Read Complex STM Books on the Kindle? Not Possible? Not So
Technical books, with charts and graphs, have always been a challenge for e-readers like the Kindle. DCL, working with MIT Press, believes it has come up with a solution.